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Replication setup (for the first time)
Posted by: Ekrem Onsoy
Date: May 23, 2014 02:36AM

Hello!

Although I am a senior SQL Server DBA and have a good experience with SQL Server Replication and Oracle Golden Gate, now I have a mission to set up MySQL replication between two MySQL Servers 5.1.67 running on CENT OS 6.3.

After reading related sections from two MySQL books and numerous articles on web, I prepared my action plan as follows.

Here, I am sharing it with you and asking for your opinions for the plan. As this will be the first time for me to set up replication with these products, I thought you may be generous to share me your experiences and thoughts.

First, please let me tell you why I did not prefer mysqldump but copying database files, because I do not have enough disk space for an extra operation. Also, downtime is not that important for this environment. I've got a 10 hours of maintenance window for this operation.

Please keep in mind that I have had absolutely no experience with Linux and MySQL before this week =)

In advance, thank you for your time!

I.Configure Master

1. edit /etc/mysql/my.cnf. Enable networking for MySQL,

#skip-networking

2. Add the following lines to the my.cnf

server-id = 1
log-bin=binlog
expire-logs-days=5
sync_binlog = 1

3. restart mysql
$ /etc/init.d/mysqld restart

4. log into the MySQL database as root and create a user with

replication privileges:

mysql> GRANT REPLICATION SLAVE ON *.* TO repl_user IDENTIFIED BY 'xxx';
mysql>FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

5. At this point, for the sake of consistency, I am locking tables.

mysql> FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK;
mysql> SHOW MASTER STATUS;

NOTE: Keep this prompt running in order for lock to be ACTIVE

e.g.

mysql> SHOW MASTER STATUS;
+——————–+———–+————–+——————+
| File | Position | Binlog_Do_DB | Binlog_Ignore_DB

|
+——————–+———–+————–+——————+
| FLTVM01-bin.000051 | 444132144 | |

|
+——————–+———–+————–+——————+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

6. Shut down mysqld to provide consistency during copy operation

$ /etc/init.d/mysqld stop

7. Copy Database files from Master to Slave

-- I am not sure if I better use z parameter for compression or not?
$ rsync -hrtplz --rsh='ssh -p22579' --progress /var/lib/mysql root@SLAVE.domain.com:/var/lib

8. Rename the copied "mysql" system database in the SLAVE as "mysql_master" and then copy the original mysql. -- I am not sure if I better preserving the old one too? Do you think so? With this configuration, is mysql db replicated?

$ cd /var/lib/mysql
-- This is the mysql db came from MASTER
$ mv mysql mysql_master
$ cd ..
-- This mysql db belongs to the original installation on SLAVE
$ scp -r /var/lib/mysql_OLD/mysql /var/lib/mysql


II. Configure Slave

1. Stop mysqld

$ /etc/init.d/mysqld stop

2. Configure Slave configuration

server-id=2
master-host=MASTER.domain.com
master-user=repl_user
master-password=xxx
master-connect-retry=60

3. Start mysqld

$ /etc/init.d/mysqld start

4. Issue command Slave Stop and Change master

mysql> SLAVE STOP;
mysql> CHANGE MASTER TO MASTER_HOST='MASTER.domain.com', MASTER_USER='repl_user', MASTER_PASSWORD=’xxx’, MASTER_LOG_FILE='<LOG FILE>', MASTER_LOG_POS=<POS>;

6. Start Slave

mysql> START SLAVE;

7. Check for errors
#tail -f /var/log/mysqld.log

III. CHECKING & TESTING

status of the master can be known from mysql prompt:

mysql> SHOW MASTER STATUS;

and slave can be known by:

mysql> SHOW SLAVE STATUS;

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